7th Annual Student Videoconference Programme

27 March 2015

Conference Room 2 - Conference Building, United NationsLive Webcast by UN Television and Web Services Section

9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (EDT)

Videoconference Sites: Brazil • Trinidad and Tobago • USA

8:30 a.m. Registration begins (UN Headquarters, New York)

9:00 a.m. Videoconference sites link with UN Headquarters

9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks: Kimberly Mann, Chief, Education Outreach Section, Outreach Division, Department of Public Information

9:35 a.m. Introduction of videoconference sites

9:40 a.m. Introductory remarks by Moderator, Eola Dance, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Programme, Northeast Region Coordinator

9:50 a.m. Students’ Presentation: More than Slaves, Women UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) in Brazil Comments and questions from all sites

10:00 a.m. Break10:05 a.m. Students’ Presentation: ...Do Not Call Us Slaves and Call of Liberty

UNESCO Associated Schools (ASPnet) in Trinidad and Tobago

Comments and questions from all sites

Other schools/institutionsBlue Nile Passage, Inc., NY, NY

Cicely Tyson Community School of the Performing & Fine Arts, East Orange, NJ

East Orange Campus High School, East Orange, NJ

East Orange STEM Academy, East Orange, NJ

National Association for Advancement of Coloured People, NJ

By live webcastBulkeley High School, Hartford, CT

Videoconference Sites and Participating SchoolsBrazil Colégio Magno/Mágico de Oz

Trinidad and Tobago St. James Secondary School, Butler Institute for Lifelong Learning

United States Arlington High School, Arlington, Nebraska

Participating Online

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Twitter: @RememberSlavery

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rememberslavery

http://rememberslavery.un.org

10:15 a.m. Students’ Presentation: Reading of Maya Angelou’s poem, Phenomenal Women, Nellie Thornton School, Mount Vernon, NY, USA

10:20 a.m. Students’ Presentation: Rachel Bundy: A Symbol of Hope

Arlington High School, Arlington, Nebraska

Comments and questions from all sites

10:30 a.m. Margaret Washington, Professor of History and American Studies, Cornell University, Women and Resistance from a Diaspora Perspective

Comments and questions from all sites

10:40 a.m Ark of Return, Permanent Memorial to Honour the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Video clip

10:46 a.m. Break

10:51 a.m. Small group discussions

11:30 a.m. Sharing highlights from small group discussions

12:00 p.m. Close of Conference

Special thanks to the UNESCO ASPnet National Coordinators: Omar Mohammed (Trinidad and Tobago), Myriam Tricate (Brazil) and

Livia Saldari, ASPnet International Coordinator (UNESCO)

Conference Organizers and Partners

United NationsDepartment of Public Information, UN Headquarters, New York | International Coordination of UNESCO’s Associated Schools Project Network (ASPnet), UNESCO, Paris

Civil Society OrganizationsLinks, Inc. | NAACP (Orange and Maplewood, NJ)

Conference ParticipantsUN Headquarters, NY

Schools invited by Links, Inc.Academy of Mt. St. Ursula, Bronx, NY

Abraham Clark High School, Roselle, NJ

Amistad Roselle PS, Roselle, NJ

Bank Street School for Children, NY, NY

Bloomfield High School, Bloomfield, NJ

Boys & Girls High School, Brooklyn, NY

Bronx Health Science High School, Bronx, NY

Bulkeley High School, Hartford, CT

Cardozo High School, Queens, NY

Central Park East, NY, NY

Ellington High, Ellington, CT

M.S. 61, Brooklyn, NY

Manhattan Center, NY, NY

MEC Prep, Brooklyn, NY

MLK High School, NY, NY

Mount Saint Michael, NY, NY

Mt. Vernon High School, Mount Vernon, NY

Nellie A. Thornton HS, Mount Vernon, NY

North Catholic High School, Ellington, CT

NVCHS, NY, NY

Pan American Int. High School, Elmhurst, NY

Queens Prep Academy, Queens, NY

The High School for Violin & Dance, Bronx, NY

Truman High School, Bronx, NY

University Heights High School, Bronx, NY

Woodlands HS, Greenburgh, NY

Young Women’s Leadership School, Bronx, NY